"We identified 13 'DNA markers' from 11 genes that are informative to predict a person's hair colour, " said Professor Kayser, chair of the Department of Forensic Molecular Biology at Erasmus.

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The research team led by Fatima Bosch, professor in the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at the UAB, studied the effects of a protein called IGF-I on the mice.

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